Plan to return the wolf to Scotland
A charity called Rewilding Britain wants a large area of Scotland to be the same as it was a thousand years ago. It wants forests and lost animals, birds and fish to return. The animals the group wants returned to mountains, rivers and seas include the wolf, beavers, sea eagles and whales. The last wolf in Britain died in 1680. The charity wants one-twentieth of the country to return to the wild. It hopes this can happen by the year 2030. Not everyone thinks bringing the wolf back is a good idea. Farmers are worried it would start killing farm animals. They also say beaver dams would flood farmland, and sea eagles would kill lambs. A Rewilding Britain spokeswoman said re-wilding was necessary for our future and that nature needed us. She added that it was important for native forests to grow again and for seas to recover from industrial fishing. |